Zac Aboriginal Dreamtime Story
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- The Dreamtime fire was a jealously-guarded secret of theseven Karatgurk women who lived by the Yarra River where Melbourne now stands.These women carried live coals on the ends of their digging sticks, allowingthem to cook yams. One day Crow found a cooked yam and, finding it tastier thanthe vegetables he had been eating, he decided he would cook his food from thenon. However, the Karatgurk women refused to share their fire with him but theCrow resolved to trick them into giving it up.
- tell us how?
- Crowcaught and hid a number of snakes in an ant mound then called the women over.He told the women he had discovered ant larvae were far tastier than yams. Thewomen began digging, angering the snakes, which attacked. Shrieking, thesisters struck the snakes with their digging sticks, hitting them with suchforce that live coals flew off.
- Crow, who had been waiting for this, gathered the coals upand hid them in a kangaroo skin bag. The women soon discovered the theft andchased him, but the bird simply flew out of their reach and perched at the topof a high tree.
- Bundjil the Eaglehawk, who had seen all of this, asked Crowfor some of the coals so that he could cook a possum. Crow instead offered tocook it for him. Soon, a large group had gathered around Crow’s tree, shoutingand demanding that he share the secret of fire with them.
- The din frightened Crow and at last he flung several livecoals at the crowd. Kurok-goru the fire-tailed finch picked up some of thecoals and hid them behind his back, which is why to this day firefinches havered tails. The rest were gathered up by Bundjil’s shaman helpers, Djurt-djurtthe Nankeen Kestrel and Thara the quail hawk.
- The coals caused a bushfire which burnt Crow’s featherspermanently black and threatened to consume the entire land, until Bundjil’sefforts halted its spread. The Karatgurk sisters, meanwhile, were swept intothe sky where they became the Pleiades (the stars are said to represent theirglowing fire sticks)
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